GOV 312L Midterm: (1-10) Midterm Review
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Review sheet, first midterm exam, gov 312l: u. s. foreign policy. Foreign policy: actions, often statements, by the u. s. government to target foreign audiences. Designated to shape the core 4 ideas of other countries: 1. Actions or behaviors: international sanctions to change the actions of other countries. Sanctions against russia designed to pressure putin to halt support of separatists: 2. Beliefs: organize ideas that others hold towards americans interests and their expectations of future american actions. Peace rests on stability of beliefs about threats: 3. Capabilities relative balance of military power between two political organizations. War as tool of foreign policy to degrade capabilities of other state: 4. Interests: what states want (territory, wealth, nuclear weapons, more democracy) President: appoints the upper rung of the federal bureaucracy. Key executive agencies: defense department: manages the armed forces of the u. s. ; headed by a civilian not a military officer.
